What's the fastest way to make tons of money with time travel?
Quote: Stoneygo back to the early days of the internet and get the rights to all the pepsi.com, ford.com, lego.com, etc. and force the company to pay huge sums to get them.
Doesn't work. The courts have consistently sided with the owner of the copyrighted name (without the .com) unless the person registered the domain name can show that they have some legitimate right to the use of the copyrighted portion. If it was only registered to hold the large company hostage no big payday.
Quote: kenarmanDoesn't work. The courts have consistently sided with the owner of the copyrighted name (without the .com) unless the person registered the domain name can show that they have some legitimate right to the use of the copyrighted portion. If it was only registered to hold the large company hostage no big payday.
made me think of this. Mike Rowe Soft.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_vs._MikeRoweSoft
We're you even born before 1932?Quote: soxfanFirstly, I'd go back in time to about 1932 and whack out F.D.R thus ensuring that new deal nonsense would never come into being. Then, I'd take my nut and buy all the banking and financial stocks that would prosper as a result, simple, hey hey.
We're you even born before 1932?Quote: soxfanFirstly, I'd go back in time to about 1932 and whack out F.D.R thus ensuring that new deal nonsense would never come into being. Then, I'd take my nut and buy all the banking and financial stocks that would prosper as a result, simple, hey hey.
Quote: kenarmanDoesn't work. The courts have consistently sided with the owner of the copyrighted name (without the .com) unless the person registered the domain name can show that they have some legitimate right to the use of the copyrighted portion. If it was only registered to hold the large company hostage no big payday.
Correct. It's called cybersquatting.
That said, I wonder if you could go back to 1998, and sneak in at registering google.com before Google Inc incorporated.
Quote: onenickelmiracleWe're you even born before 1932?
Arrrrgh, I didn't read the question carefully enough. So, I couldn't go back any farther than 1968, hmm. I guess I would take my bundle and bet it all on the miracle Mets to win the show in 1969. The I would take that large bundle and use half to purchase lots of cheap on what was then the outskirts of the Las Vegas; and I'd use the other half of that bundle to buy up all the gold I could at the then bargain basement price of 33$ an ounce, hey hey.
Quote: soxfanArrrrgh, I didn't read the question carefully enough. So, I couldn't go back any farther than 1968, hmm. I guess I would take my bundle and bet it all on the miracle Mets to win the show in 1969. The I would take that large bundle and use half to purchase lots of cheap on what was then the outskirts of the Las Vegas; and I'd use the other half of that bundle to buy up all the gold I could at the then bargain basement price of 33$ an ounce, hey hey.
You have to realize how crappy an investment gold is in this scenario right. I mean we have foreknowledge gold right now is worth about 1250 you are getting less than a 40 to 1 return over a period of 45 years. That is only about an 9% annual return on investment I mean its OK but hardly the best you could get. Even if you didn't want to finagle and move money across stocks at the perfect time you could make far more by just investing in IBM and letting it sit there. I mean even with foreknowledge gold is a relatively crappy investment as a growth medium when you have foreknowledge its like the worse decision possible. Maybe you buy right as a boom is starting and sell right before the crash but even then you are only talking modest gains compared to other opportunities presented to you.
Quote: DeucekiesCorrect. It's called cybersquatting.
That said, I wonder if you could go back to 1998, and sneak in at registering google.com before Google Inc incorporated.
Then google would have been called something else like 'plex.com' or something.
Quote: DRichI would go back to 1626 and offer the indians 75 guilders for Manhattan (it sold for 60).
Do you still get social security being alive for 388 years? :)
Of Late I Think of Cliffordville April 11, 1963 is a classic episode of using Time Travel to make a fortune
A bored executive works in a building with a janitor who grew up in the same small town. He needles the janitor because of the choices he made in life.
He gives all of his money except $1400 to the devil (Julie Newmar) for a chance to go back to 1910. Confident that with his knowledge of future events and with his people skills (his confidence inflated by years of listening to lackeys) . It's obviously not as easy as he thinks, and there is a typical TZ twist at the end.
Quote: kenarmanDoesn't work. The courts have consistently sided with the owner of the copyrighted name (without the .com) unless the person registered the domain name can show that they have some legitimate right to the use of the copyrighted portion. If it was only registered to hold the large company hostage no big payday.
Such things worked until the late 90s.
Assume you have very little money and you are suck in the past.
Quote: AxelWolfStocks has been beaten to death and is the obvious choice. Perhaps you could buy cheap mineral rights for oil.
That was part of the Twilight Zone episode. Unless you are armed with a book of day by day stock prices, you only know long term trends. You have the problem of lack of capital plus the need to wait for long enough to have the trends come true. The executive from 1961 doesn't have a very good skill set to work in 1910.
You might remember that there was a big temporary crash in the market in the late 80's, but you have to get enough money to have a fortune, then withdraw the money, wait it out, and reinvest. Since you don't remember the exact year, you have to hedge your bets.
Quote: TwirdmanYou have to realize how crappy an investment gold is in this scenario right. I mean we have foreknowledge gold right now is worth about 1250 you are getting less than a 40 to 1 return over a period of 45 years. That is only about an 9% annual return on investment I mean its OK but hardly the best you could get. Even if you didn't want to finagle and move money across stocks at the perfect time you could make far more by just investing in IBM and letting it sit there. I mean even with foreknowledge gold is a relatively crappy investment as a growth medium when you have foreknowledge its like the worse decision possible. Maybe you buy right as a boom is starting and sell right before the crash but even then you are only talking modest gains compared to other opportunities presented to you.
Well, the price of gold hit 850$ oz in 1979-80, but in retrospect it would be much better to buy the underlying mining exploration stocks for HUGE return on investments! And I'm still ticked that I can't bump off that pesky FDR, hey hey!
http://www.gold-eagle.com/article/21st-century-gold-rush
You might be richer going to the future considering even our poorest don't really know true poverty. Better to be poor now than rich in the past.Quote: djatcTurns out New Coke came out in 1985. Maybe I could have bought stocks in KO as the market sours to it and brings back regular old coke.
